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Golden Spike 
a golden spike used in the ceremony of driving the last spike of a railway line.
- 1928 So high was enthusiasm and confidence that there is said to have been a proposal that the Golden Spike be driven at the beginning [of the Hudson Bay Railway] rather than at the finish.
- 1958 It's your year . . . to see the Golden Spike re-enactment at Craigellachie. . . .
- 1928 So high was enthusiasm and confidence that there is said to have been a proposal that the Golden Spike be driven at the beginning [of the Hudson Bay Railway] rather than at the finish.